Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Files Brief Supporting Unions' Legal Challenge Against Workforce EOs

A bipartisan group of current and former lawmakers on Monday filed a legal briefing in support of federal employee unions’ legal challenge against three controversial executive orders that seek to make it easier to fire federal workers and reduce the influence of federal employee unions. Reps. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., and Peter King, R-N.Y., and former Reps. Bill Clay, D-Mo., and Jim Leach, R-Iowa, filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit filed by 15 federal sector unions to prevent the implementation of three executive orders signed by Trump in May. Trump’s executive orders seek to shorten the time it takes to fire federal employees by instructing agencies to streamline performance improvement plans at 30 days in most cases and exempting firings and other adverse personnel actions from grievance procedures.